Flaming Arrows
by William O. Steele (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
NZ$49.55NZ$34.69
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1959 Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York. 1959. Hardcover. Copyright page is c1957 with F.10.59 below it. I assume 2nd edition/printing. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Winner of William Allen White Children's Book Award. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; lighjt shelfwear to edges of top and bottom board edges, tips, head, and tail. DJ: Fair+; NOT Price Clipped ($2.75); missing small pieces at head and tail; wear at tip covers; suntanning to spine. Orange cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine; black ribs on spine; black flaming arrows on front board. 178 pp 8vo. A fiction history piece sent in the Tennessee mountains in the early 1800s. Chickamauga raiding parties are on the warpath and attacking settlers who must retreat to the fort. There old animosities are forgotten and friend and enemy must join together to save people. property, fort, and their own hides. A clean presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006075
- Title
- Flaming Arrows
- Author
- William O. Steele (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Illustrator
- Paul Galdone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- frontiersmen, frontier forts, Indian Wars, warpath, Chickamauga Indians, Tennessee frontier, Early America, frontier fiction, historical fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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